The much-awaited Hindi film “Brahmastra: Part One-Shiva” is all set to arrive at the theatres near you soon, the film recently commenced its advance bookings and the reports suggest, it will take a grand opening.
“Brahmastra” is set to hit the cinemas on Sept 9, 2022, the posters, trailer, and songs have already created a huge buzz surrounding the film ahead of the release. Here we are discussing the screen counts, budget, advance bookings, and box office projection of the movie.
Budget and Advance Bookings
Back in Nov 2020, the Chairman of Star and Disney India then, Uday Shankar, told to media that Brahmastra is made with way more than a 300 crore budget, which makes it one of the most expensive Hindi films to date. As per several media reports, Ranbir starrer is made on budget of Rs 410 crores excluding printing and advertisements.
Talking about the Advance Bookings, it has sold over a huge 1.56 Lakh tickets worth Rs 5.56 Cr in Hindi across all formats. It has crossed the 10,000 ticket sales in Telugu worth 20.47L in both 2D and 3D formats.
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Screen Counts
Ranbir-Alia starrer will witness the widest release post-pandemic for a Hindi film. It will be released on 5000 screens across India alone. As per the reports, it will occupy over 8000 screens globally.
It seems Ranbir will going to breach his own record, below are the list of biggest release films post-pandemic, domestically:
Shamshera: 4350, SamratPrithviraj: 3750, 83TheFilm: 3741, Sooryavanshi: 3519, BhoolBhulaiyaa2: 3200, Jayeshbhai Jordaar: 2250
How’s the Hype?
We can say that so far so good as the visually enriched trailer, songs, and new-look posters created a huge buzz among movie lovers which is evident from its advance bookings.
But on the other, it has found itself in controversy. Controversies can’t be ignored especially these times when it is directly affecting the box office numbers of the movies.
Box Office Collection
Recent Bollywood releases Laal Singh Chaddha, Raksha Bandhan, and Liger were called for a boycott by the netizens which directly affected their Box Office. Now, Ranbir’s film has been embroiled in the same controversy, however, it is to be seen whether it affects the box office numbers of Brahmastra.
Kartik Aryan’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 is still the top grosser day 1 film of 2022, the expectation was from biggies like Prithviraj, Laal Singh Chaddha and Ranbir’s own Shamshera to overtake the former’s record but all these were rejected by the audience at the BO. JugJuggJeeyo did decent business but it was a semi-hit affair.
Also Read: Jug Jugg Jeeyo Box Office Collection (Worldwide): Final Figures, 42.5% ROI
Now all eyes will be on Ranbir’s Brahmastra. It has the potential to become one of the biggest Hindi films of 2022 as it is being released in pan India in multiple languages. A start of 22 crores domestically could be expected from this mega-budget project, however, if the trend is negative it can go as low as 12-13 crores also.
